But what about the passages that talk about God forming you in the womb? About how he knew you before you were in the womb, etc?
Let’s take this apart piece by piece. For a thinking Christian person, the fact that God was supposedly forming their body while in the womb means nothing insofar as whether or not you are alive yet. The question always comes down to when exactly soul meets body. And according to that tome, “breath is life.“ It mentions this more than once – – that life is breathed into someone. All of which indicates that we are not truly alive until we take a breath.
But what about knowing you before you were in the womb? Well frankly, doesn’t that indicate that you were somewhere else instead? As “out there” as it seems, many young children like to talk about their time “before I came down here“ and people have always considered that to mean that they were not actually in the womb, but in heaven or somewhere on the other side waiting to be born. They talk about coming close to their mothers, watching them, and waiting. God knew you before you were in the world, that does tend to indicate that he had you elsewhere before you “came down.”
It also reinforces the notion of a “rainbow baby,” which is a child born almost immediately after a miscarriage or stillbirth. Spiritualists believe that that soul, instead of entering the first body, circles back to a better time and/or a healthier body.
But more importantly, it reinforces why that Old Testament God would not have a problem with Christian men cutting the fetuses out of their enemies wive‘s wombs, but also why it would be perfectly acceptable for a man who thinks his wife is cheating to take her to a priest for an abortion.
In light of all of this, you come to understand that early Christianity did not believe in viability in the womb, but that life started after birth, with breath.
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